Greatest films of all time?
This year, as every ten years since 1952, the BFI has asked critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics to name the best movies of all time.
You can watch the results on the BFI website.
That’s what I did and WOW.
The very same WOW that hits me every ten years.
It’s impossible that someone will ever agree with that kind of list in such a specific order. It’s such a wide array of different tastes, eras and, if you read between the lines, opinions about what a good movie is that I’m pretty sure everywhere in the world there’s people choking while browsing that page.
And that’s ok.
It’s just another way to discover old movies, talk about old movies and, in the end, making old movies alive.
What really bugs me every ten years is an unanswered nerdy haunting question.
Are the movies in that list even the best of their directors?
Would you really say that Vertigo is the best Hitchcock’s film?
And that Citizen Kane is the best from Orson Welles?
How many people that answered the poll really think that? That’s the kind of stuff I’d be really curious about.